The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-09-01
II E PIEDMONT SECTION.
TT Is OF NEWS FROM NEAR BIZ
COUNTIES.
aversack of Happenings Gathered
rom Various Sections in Piedmont
North Carolina.

Vernon springs.
21essrs. Huff Bros, of East Bend have
put in an engine of 80 horse power to sup
ply power to their mills.
The Friends held a picnic at East Bend
on August Goth, at which three or four
hundred people were present.
Proud parents exhibited at the Mt Airy
Meas office last week baby which has II
toes, 10 fingers and thumbs
The camp meeting at Muir's Chapel,
Guilfurd county, is still in progress and
with undated interest manifested
The public teachers examination will be
held at Wentworth, Rockingham county on
End Thursday in Sept, 9Th inst.
Mr.. E. D. Steele, former citizen of High
Point, but now land agent at IDAHO, will
soon return to North Carolina to live.
Walter Boyles, young man twenty years
of age, while bathing in Beaver Creek, Da-
wilson tawnship, Iredell county, last week,
was drowned.
With the exception of two women COM
mitted for costs at the last term f court,
Su!ry county Jail has been tenantless for
the past six months.
One day during Yearly Meeting at High
Point there were six gentlemen sitting in a
row at Mr.. F. G. Cartland's table, whose
ages aggregated 437 years.
Rev. Mr.. Bachelor, of the NJ. P. Church,
is conducting protracted meeting at Rich
mond Hill. Many converts are reported
and large crowd in attendance.
hail storm last week did sad work in
the corn at and near Richmond Hill, Surry
county. Report says the hail lay on the
ground from two to three inches deep.
The Surry county tobacco crop will not
be more than % per cent of the average in
pounds. 1t has the finest wheat crop for
;ears and the outlook for corn is very good.
II county board of education of each
county in the State, at their September
meeting, VIII appoint school committeeman
Tor each school district, who will serve two
years.
A ~ tlssnake, measuring 6! feet IA lsagth
ard inches in circumference, having rat
ties and button, was killed in the yard of
Ir. n. F. Sullivan, near Germanton last
week
East Bend has been incorporated and now
rejoices in Mayor and full board Of COM
missioners. The merchants of that town
report business brisk and our little neighbor
seems to be thriving
The Baptists of Statesville have extended
u unanimous call to Rev. w. L. Brewer,
their former pastor in 1872, but now To-
Gated at Red Plains, Mo-, to the Dastorate of
the church at that place.
John Lakely, who murdered John Coley
last October at Cross Roads Church, Yad-
kin county, has been apprehended at Knox
vile, Tenn, and the Sheriff telegraphed
for to come and identify him.
Mr.. y. r. Glann, of Baltimore, Md, was
in Greensboro last week for the purpose of
instituting lodge of the order of the Gold
en- Chain. The order originated in Balti-
more, and in all its features is said to be
truly benevolent fraternity.
A negro by the name of Peter Hairston
was arrested in Leaksvile last week for
stealing horse and Jersey cow, from Mr.
Henry Wade, of Henry county, Va. He
was arrested on suspicion by his offering to
sell both at such nominal figures. The
Hairston negroes seem to be bad set.
Greensboros long looked-for electric
light was turned on the same night as Win
ston's, and of course drew large crowds. The
Neus says: "Of course it is brilliant, but
the lamps are too few and far between to
amount to much. The lights in business
places were pronounced a great success.
A neighboring exchange says: "a pro-
fessional architect is one of the needs of eve
ry Southern town. No town in this age is
regarded as fully equipped that cannot
boast of a professional of this character Ell
Their as a citizen or easy of access. The old
style buildings of our daddies must GO"
We learn from the Landmark that rich
deposits of iron ore have been found in
Wilkes county on the proposed line of the
Winston and Wilkesboro Railroad, and
company has leased the mineral interest in
the land in Wilkes and Surry, through
which the vein runs, distance of thirty
miles.
We learn that on the southwestern side of
the 4adkin river an English company are
making arrangements to take water from the
river and run it through fume for dis
lance of four miles, at the end of which the
water will be'raised to height of 284 feet
above the workings. From thence will he
led on TO extensive surface mining fields,
which have been purchased by that compa-
ny